Cathode-ray oscilloscope circuit



Feb. 25, 1947. w. A. DEPP 2,416,290

CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPE CIRCUIT Filed Oct. 2, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet l :PERIOD 0! SUPPLY VOLTAGE l /ANODE VULMGE 0F 1; FIG. 2a I 4 VOLTAGE TIME -PERIGD OFLZ C.

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Patented Feb. 25, 1947 CATHODE-RAY OSCILLOSCOPE CIRCUIT Wallace A. Depp, Elmhurst, N. Y., assignor to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated,

New

York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application October 2, 1942, Serial No. 460,532

Claims. (CL 31522) This invention relates to circuits for cathode ray Oscilloscopes, particularly to such as permit impressing a timing signal on the electron trace shown on the oscilloscope screen.

Means are well known for producing a timing trace separate from the trace of the phenomenon under investigation. For example, such are disclosed in United States Patent 2,132,225 to V. Subrizi. Likewise, means are known for causing momentary brightening of the trace clue to a to provide means for applying a high frequency timing signal directly to the trace on a cathode ray oscilloscope screen representing a recurrent transient phenomenon.

Such a transient may recur with imperfect regularity in time, in which event it is clearly futile to attempt to synchronize a high frequency timing wave of any character with the recurrence of the transient. By the circuit of the present invention the timing wave is established in fixed time relationship to the initiation of the transient, making no demand that the transient itself recur with ideal regularity. Accordingly, a second object of the invention is to provide means for the direct application of a time scale to the individual recurrences of a transient represented on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope, maintaining a fixed time relationship between the onset of each recurrence of the transient and the time scale thereto applied.

In order that a steady trace shall be produced on the oscilloscope screen so that a visual or photographic record may be obtained, it is also requisite that the initiation of the sweep impulse on the horizontal deflecting elements of the oscilloscope be unalterably related in fixed time sequence to the initiation of the transient to be shown on the vertical deflecting elements of the cathode ray oscilloscope. It is, therefore, a third object of the invention to provide for the investigation of transient phenomena a circuit wherein a primary impulse establishes in an unvarying time sequence: first, a sweep impulse; second, a timing signal effective to brighten momentarily at regular and minute time intervals the trace observed on the oscilloscope screen; and third, the transient voltage to be analyzed,

, It has been found possible to accomplish the stated objects of the invention in the following way: a shock-excited circuit is used, first, to generate a voltage pulse which is applied directly to the horizontal deflecting elements of the oscilloscope; second, to release by means of this pulse high frequency oscillations in a second circuit, which oscillations are superimposed on the control grid of the oscilloscope and thereby cause the spot brightness to vary with time; and, third, to derive inductively from the original shockexcited pulse a voltage controllably delayed with respect thereto and effective to trigger 01f a recurrence of the transient phenomenon under study from which is produced a voltage on the vertical deflecting elements of the oscilloscope. By such an arrangement each recurrence of the transient is treated as an independent phenomenon and occurs in fixed time relationship to the initiation of the horizontal deflection of the electron spot. Furthermore, the timing signal which causes periodic brightening of the observed trace is likewise in fixed time relation to the sweep and to the onset of the transient. It is thus possible for the transient to recur with less than perfect regularity in time and still be represented by a steady trace on the oscilloscope screen with no need for synchronizing means of the usual kind.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a. diagram of the shock circuit utilized for the sequential instigation of the sweep voltage, ofthe timing wave, and of the transient to be investigated;

Fig. 2a exhibits the relationship between the period of the alternating supply voltage and that of the shock circuit itself;

Fig. 2b shows the type of voltage pulse derived from the shock circuit of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a diagram of the time marking circuit generating a high frequency timing wave in response to the voltage pulse shownin Fig. 21);

Fig. 4 is a diagram, partly schematic, of the complete circuit, including a cathode ray osci1lo scope as arranged to study the breakdown of a "Thyratron; and

Fig. is representative of the trace on the oscilloscope screen provided by the circuit of Fi 4.

In all figures like numerals and letters identify like elements.

Referring to Fig. 1, an alternating voltage of any convenient frequency, say 60 cycles, is applied between terminals I in series with resistor 2 and the grid-cathode circuit of tube T1 which may suitably be a Thyratron, such as the Western Electric 338A. ,Grid 3 of Tube T1 is negatively biased by battery 4 for which a suitable voltage is 6 volts. Anode 5 of Tube T1 is supplied through inductance L1 from battery 6 when switch S is closed. Shunting the anode to ground path of tube T1 is a series combination ofcondenser C1 and inductance. L2, the latter itself shunted by resistor i. Cathode 8 of tube T1 is connected to ground, as indicated, and is thus also connected to the terminals of L2 and resistor I remote from condenser C1, to the negative sideof battery 6, and through battery 4 to one terminal of the alternating voltage applied across terminal i. In tube T1 cathode 8 is heated by a heater element 9 which requires no description.

It is clear that the circuit described is a simple relaxation circuit. When switchS is closed, it may be shown by mathematical analysis that condenser C1 is charged up approximately sinusoidally to about twice the voltage of battery 6. If the time constant of L1C1 is properly chosen, condenser C1 when substantially fully charged, 'will be discharged through tube T1 near the instant of a positive peak of the supply voltage across terminals I. This result may be assured by choosing L1 and C1 of such values that the natural period of their combination is twice that of the voltage at I. L2 is of so small inductance that it may be ignored in comparison with L1 for this purpose.

After C1 discharges through T1 it charges up to'the opposite polarity by reason of the inertia of L2 and acquires a voltage numerically approximately as great as that of opposite sign to has recharged C1 to its original polarity and the supplyvoltage at terminals 1 is again of the sign "and magnitude appropriate to make T1 conductive. It may be shown that after the first charging of condenser C1 to a negative voltage approximately twice that of battery 6, later cycles involve a charging voltage on C1 progressively greater than the initial but only a few cycles are required for the stabilization of the potential received by C1 at a value some three or four times that of battery 06. The time interval between successive firings of tube T1 is ,4, second. In the case shown thisis, therefore, the length of the cycle ofoperation of the circuit shown in Fig. 1 which may be termed the pulsing circuit.

'The relationship of the period of the supply voltage andof the combination L1C1 is shown in Fig. 2a which likewise exhibits the phase relation of the supply voltage to the voltage on C1, a relation which is automatically established by the operation of the circuit of Fig. 1. If L1 is 1400 henries and C1 is 0.02 microfarad, the time periodof L1C1 is of a second, appropriate to a (SO-cycle supply voltage.

At the moment tube Ti becomes conducting.

.for clearness. some 1400 henries while L2 is about 1 millithe voltage across inductance L2 is negative with respect to ground at its terminal adjacent to condenser C1 as shown at A in Fig. 2b. The discharge and subsequent recharge with reversed polarity of C1 result in a voltage pulse across L2 shown as the segment AB, Fig 2b. Terminals id of Fig. I serve to transmit this voltage pulse to the subsequent circuit of Fig. 3. Succeeding this pulse appear oscillations (represented in Fig. 212 by the portion BC of the curve there drawn) in the voltage across L2 determined by the resonance of L2 with its own distributed capacity together with, that of the loadconnected across L2; theseoscillations are damped by the shunt resistor R2. Here the time scale is exaggerated Conveniently, L1 is chosen to be hem'y so that a half period, from A to B, Fig. Z'b, of C1L2 is shorter than that of C1L1 in the approximate ratio of 1200 to 1. That is when, 60 cycles is the frequency of the control voltage at terminals l, the half period of C1L2 is about 14 microseconds. The stated ratio between the period of C1L1 and that of C1L2 is merely for convenience, since the period of C1L2 is fixed by the desired interval of sweep. In this time it is desired to establish, first, a sweep voltage on the horizontal plates of the cathode ray oscilloscope; second, a timing signal to brighten at periodic intervals the electron trace; and, third, a voltage impulse efiective to initiate the transient phe- 'nomenon to be analyzed.

The horizontal sweep voltage is obtainable directly from the voltage across L2 during the half period swing from A to B, Fig. 212. How the timing signal is derived from this pulse will be evident from a description of Fig. 3.

In Fig. 3 the output voltage of the pulsing circuit of Fig. 1, namely, the voltage across inductance L2, is applied at input terminals 10 between ground and cathode ll of tube T2 which may properly be a triode, such as the 1G4G, connected'as a diode-detector by joining, as shown, its grid l2' and anode l3. T2, connected as stated, isolates condenser C2 from inductance L2, thereby preventing the discharge of C2 (when negatively charged) through R2 and L2, and also the positive recharge of C2 when a positive voltage appears across L2. A voltage pulse from the pulsing circuit of Fig. 1 traverses tube T2 charging condenser C2 through resistor R3 and simultaneously cutting. off tube '1: to grid M of which anode I3 is directly connected. Tube T2 is, for example, a 61% connected as a triode. The negative charge on condenser C2 leaks ofi through resistor R4 before the arrival of the next negative impulse from the pulsing circuit. As the voltage across L2 varies from a negative value at A through zero to a positive value at B, Fig. 2b, the negative charge on condenser C2 serves to hold grid I4 at the cut-off of tube T2.

The output circuit of tube T2 comprises anode I5 and 250-volt battery IS in series with the parallel resonant circuit L302. When tube Ta is drivento cut-off by the negative pulse received from L2 through tube T2 oscillations are excited in circuit L202 which are suitable to be applied over terminal I! to the control grid of the cathode ray oscilloscope and by periodic variation of the potential of that grid to brighten and darken alternately the fiuorescentspot on the oscilloscope screen. These oscillations of spot brightness result in'impressing a time scale on the trace already set in horizontal motion by the voltage pulse across L2 directly impressed on the ans-nit sweep plates. Choosing L3 as 20 microhenries and C3 as 20 micromicrofarads, we obtain a timing signal of frequency of 8 megacycles per second, whereby more than 100 time intervals may be marked on the trace during the sweep interval which, as stated, is approximately 14 microseconds. The sweep starts always from the same location on the fluorescent screen, a location determined by initial adjustments of the cathode ray tube which are well known and require no description here. Equally the timing signal begins at a fixed interval after the start of the sweep and both sweep and timing signals are repetitive at the frequency of the alternating voltage supplied to terminals I of Fig. 1. It remains now to describe the means whereby a transient to be studied is initiated in fixed time relation to the sweep and to the time signal, from which transient a voltage is obtained to be represented by vertical deflection of the time marked trace.

In Fig. 4 the voltage across L2 is applied through stopping condenser [8 to one of the horizontal plates IQ of cathode ray oscilloscope CRO, the two horizontal plates being connected through resistor 20 the mid-point of which is grounded. The sweep voltage is thus directly provided from the pulsing circuit of Fig. 1. The time marking circuit of Fig. 3 is connected, as indicated, through stopping condenser 2! to control grid 22 of the oscilloscope CRO. This control grid is provided with the customary direct current 'bias to provide an electron spot of desired average brightness. The usual elements of the oscilloscope including power supply therefor are shown in Fig. 4 without specific notation, these elements not being concerned in the present invention. Condenser 23 in shunt between ground and the horizontal plate to which the sweep impulse is not applied, short-circuits, so far as concerns alternating current, one part of resistor 20, while leaving undisturbed the direct voltage, not shown, which is customarily used to locate the starting position of the electron spot. The inherent minute delay through the time marking circuit insures the application of the timing voltage in superposition on the direct current control grid bias just after the start of the sweep.

The vertical plates 24 of oscilloscope CRO are shunted by resistor 25 of which the mid-point is grounded and one-half shunted by condenser 26 for the same reason that a similar combination of resistor 20 and condenser 23 is used in the case of the horizontal plates [9. The vertical plate opposite the plate shunted to ground by condenser 26 receives the transient voltage to be analyzed. This transient voltage is derived in any convenient way from the circuit under test and applied, as indicated in Fig. 4, to one of the plates 24 through stopping condenser 27. To initiate the transient phenomenon under investigation, inductance 28 is magnetically coupled to inductance L2 of the pulsing circuit. The voltage pulse of Fig. 217, A to B, produces in inductance 28 a corresponding pulse delayed with respect to the inducing pulse by reason of the distributed capacity of inductance 28. This induced pulse is used to trigger the operation of the circuit it is desired to investigate. To obtain a longer time delay, condenser 29, shown in dotted line in Fig. 4, may be used to shunt inductance 28 and may be given a value appropriate to insure the desired delay for the induced pulse. An air condenser of small value is sufiicient for this purpose and in the usual case no condenser '29 is required.

6 Fig. 4-shows, as anillustration, the application of the circuit of the invention to study the breakdown of the .Thyratron. The pulsing circuit of Fig. 1 provides, in the manner already described, horizontal sweep voltage and the timing voltage applied to the control grid of the oscilloscope. A delayed voltage pulse-indicated as a "delayed peak is derived from inductance In by means of inductance 28 and serves to set in operation relaxation oscillator 3|] which may be of any desired kind. The output of oscillator 30 is a sharp impulse which may be converted to the required shape by a shaping circuit 3|, such as is. well known in the art. The impulse so shaped, indicated as the grid-tripping pulse is applied to the grid of the Thyratron 32 of which the anode voltage through condenser 21 is connected to one of the vertical plates 24.

Fig. 5 is redrawn from an actual photograph of a trace representing the breakdown of the- Thyratron. The oscillation frequency of Lace Fig. 3, was 6 megacycles per second. In this case, after a delay of about microsecond, the anode voltage of the Thyratron under test fell to zero in about /6 microsecond. The brightness variations of the trace, actually sinusoidal, appear, as the result of contrast, as slightly elongated bright spots, black on the drawing of Fig. 5 which should be considered as a photographic negative.

The tuning of oscillating circuit 113C: is conveniently done by coupling across L3 the output of a calibrated oscillator and varying C3 while the entire circuit is in operation. Indentity of the resonant frequency of L303 with the frequency of the calibrated oscillator is shown by general brightening of the screen trace without impairment of the distinctness of the time markings.

It is to be noted that the voltage pulse, A to B of Fig. 21), includes a nearly straight pulse which corresponds to a sweep nearly linear with time. It is, however, unnecessary that the sweep be ideally linear, inasmuch as the points of increased spot brightness are of accurately uniform time spacing. Also, it is clear that the horizontal sweep of the electron spot begins always at a point on the screen determined by the initial spot biasing adjustment, and that the timing scale commences at a fixed interval after the start of the sweep and thereafter, again at a fixed time interval, the transient to be examined is initiated. The sequence described is thus invariable in time and in screen location so that the observed pattern is steady on the oscilloscope screen.

Provided the of inductance L3 is reasonably good, say 150, more than 50 time markings may be impressed on the trace before the oscillations of LaCs have decayed too far for distinct marking. Should there be demanded for the oscilloscope control grid a higher voltage than is derived from the time marking circuit directly, this voltage may be amplified by a conventional amplifier of which the anode circuit is tuned to the frequency of 11:02. It is essential that in using such an amplifier, tuning be in its output and not in its input circuit to avoid generating a double frequency when L303 is shock excited. When amplification is used to amplify the voltage developed across IeCa a-volume limiter may be included whereby many more oscillations of desired intensity may be applied to control grid 22.

- Inthe circuits described, suitable values for 7 the involved resistances, inductances and capacitances are as follows:

For the pulsing circuit of Fig. 1:

v R1=R2=10,000 ohms L1=l400 henries L2=1 millihenry 'C1=0.02 microfarad For the time marking circuit of Fig. 3:

R3=20,000 ohms R4=0.1 megohm R5=450 ohms Ls=='20 microhenries C2='0.001 microfarad C3=20 micromicrofarads (for I per second) ,C4=0.1 microfarad While the invention has been described in its specific application to study the breakdown of a "Thyratron, it will be obvious that this is not the only illustration which might be chosen. The invention is applicable to the study of any phenomenon which is-capable of representation on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope. Minor circuit changes, well understood by those skilled in the art, will enable the circuit described to be applied to a cathode ray tube using magnetic instead of electrostatic deflecting elements.

It is to be understood that by shock excitation is meant the abrupt release of the electrical energy stored in condenser Crfrom battery 6, or that stored in condenser C3 from batter I6. The action initiating the desired sequence of events is the discharge ofcondenser Cl at'the in: stant tube T1 becomes conducting; this constitutes-the shock excitation of the circuit composed of L2, C1 and tube T1. Obviously; in the storage circuit shown comprising battery 6, inductances L1 and L2 and condenser C1, the place of inductance L1 may be taken by a resistor so chosen-that Condenser C1 shall be substantially completely charged within a time interval equal tothe period of the alternating supply voltage I. If this substitution is made, the limitation is removed which required that the oscillations of L1C1 have a period twice that of the supply voltage. That limitation was imposed to insure that the voltage on C1 released by the firing of tube T1 should not vary from cycle to cycle, since it is this voltage which determines the sweep amplitude. -When a resistor is used in place of L1 the successive chargings of C1 are all alike and tube T1 may be fired at any instant after C1 has acquired a substantially complete charge. Then the sweep amplitude is constant, the disadvantage being that thevoltage across C1 never exceeds the battery voltage, for which reason the sweep amplitude is less than with the circuit illustrated in Fig. 1.

. Alternatively, inductance L1 may be retained and a diode introduced in series, connecting its 8 megacycles anode to the positive terminal of battery 6 and.

its .cathode to the end of inductance L1 previous-. ly connected to battery 6. In this case M need not have the high inductance mentioned in the table of circuit constants but may be chosen of such inductance as to permitcharging C1 in a very short time, say /5000 second. The presence of the diode prevents reversal of the polarity of the voltage on C1 and the firing of the tube may recur as frequently. as desired or as limited by the characteristics of the circuit whose behavior is to be investigated by means of the invention. Moreover, since the charge of condenser C1 is rapidly acquired andis retained indefinitely (if 0 the leakage be negligible) the transient to be studied may have a very low frequency of recurrence. If the value chosen for Ll. corresponds to /5000 second for the charging of C1, the phenom enon to be studied may recur at low or at high frequency (not higher than 5,000 per second) or may actually be of random recurrence, if firing voltage I is random instead of periodic, provided the interval between successive recurrences be not less than /5000 second.

Clearly, equivalents may be found for the other major elements described. For the time mark ing circuit of Fig. 3, instead of the resonant cir cuit L3C3, one may use a high frequency multi vibrator. Finally, the triggering of the transient may be effected by a relay the winding of which is traversed by the discharge of C1, or by a vacuum tube rendered conductive by a voltage on its grid derived in any known manner from the discharge of C1, or by other expedients readily occurring to one skilled in the art.

It will be observed that in all the cases discussed, a circuit is employed in which electrical energy is stored and the abrupt discharge of the energy in this storage circuit is utilized to produce directly a sweep voltage and indirectly a time signal superimposed on the sweep and a voltage initiating the transient under investigation in the sequence stated.

What i claimed is:

1. The method of timing a transient phenomenon to be studied by a trace on the screen ofa cathode ray oscilloscope including at least a pair of sweep plates which comprises generating a voltage pulse, producing from said pulse in sequence a deflecting voltage on said sweep plates, a voltage efiective to brighten said trace at regular time intervals, and a voltage effective to initiate said transient phenomenon and initiate ing said phenomenon by said last-mentioned voltage.

2. The method of timing a transient phenomenon represented by a trace on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope which comprises generating a voltage pulse, deriving from said pulse a first voltage efiective to brighten said trace at regular time intervals and a second voltage effecs tive to initiate said phenomenon, maintaining a fixed time relationship between said voltages and initiating said phenomenon by said second volt-. age.

3. In the study of a recurrent phenomenon by its representative trace on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope provided at least with horizontal and vertical deflecting means, the method of producing in identical location on said screen suc-. cessive traces each representative of a recurrence of aid phenomenon which comprise generating a voltage pulse, producing from said pulse a deflecting voltage on said horizontal deflecting means, producing from said pulse in fixed time relation to said deflecting voltage a voltage initiating a recurrence of said phenomenon and producing from said phenomenon so initiated a defleeting voltage on said vertical deflecting means.

4. In the study of a recurrent phenomenon by. its representative trace on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope provided at least with a control grid and with horizontal and vertical deflecting means, the method of producing and time marking in identical location on said screen successivetraces each representative of a recurrence of said phenomenon which comprises generating a voltage pulse, producing from said pulse in se-.

quence a deflecting voltage on said horlzontal.de--

flecting means, a periodic timing voltage on said c ntrol grid in fixed time relationship to said defleeting voltage and a voltage initiating a renrrence of said phenomenon likewise in fixed time relationship to said deflecting voltage and producing from said phenomenon so initiated a deflecting voltage on said vertical deflecting means.

5. A timing circuit for the analysis of a recurrent transient voltage comprising a cathode ray oscilloscope including a fluorescent screen, horizontal and vertical deflectin elements, a control grid and means for producing on said screen a trace varying in brightness with the potential of said grid, a first resonant circuit coupled to said horizontal deflecting elements, means for shock exciting said first circuit to produce therefrom a voltage pulse on said horizontal elements, a second resonant circuit coupled to said grid, means controlled by said pulse to produce by shock excitation of said second circuit a high frequency alternating voltage to vary the potential of said grid, an inductance magnetically coupled to said first circuit to derive from said voltage pulse a second voltage pulse, means controlled by said second voltage pulse to produce said transient voltage and means for impressing said transient voltage on said vertical deflecting elements.

6. A timing circuit as in claim wherein said inductance is shunted by an adjustable capacitance whereby said second pulse is capable of being adjustably delayed with respect to said first-mentioned pulse.

'7. In a timing circuit for the analysis of a recurrent transient voltage represented by a trace on the fluorescent screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope provided at least with horizontal and vertical deflecting elements and a control grid the potential of which determines the brightness of said trace, means for providing for said trace in sequence a horizontal deflecting voltage and a high frequency variation in brightness comprising a first resonant circuit adapted to produce when shock excited a voltage pulse on said horizontal elements, means for shock exciting said first cir-. cuit and a second resonant circuit controlled and shock excited by said pulse to produce on said grid high frequency potential variations.

8. For the study of an electrical transient by means of its representative trace on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope provided at least with horizontal deflecting elements, means for producing said transient, means for generating in fixed time relationship a deflecting voltage on said elements and a voltage controlling said transient producing means, said transient comprising a resonant circuit adapted on shock excitation to produce said deflecting voltage, mean for shock exciting said circuit, and an inductance magnetically coupled with said circuit and deriving from said circuit when shock excited an induced voltage initiating said transient.

9. Means as in claim 8 wherein said inductance is shunted by a variable capacitance whereby said induced voltage may be variably delayed with respect to said deflecting voltage.

10. For the analysis of a recurrent transient voltage represented by a trace on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope provided at least with a fluorescent screen, horizontal and vertical deflecting elements, a control grid and means for producing on said screen a trace varying in brightness with the potential of said grid, a timing circuit including a storage circuit capable of storing electrical energy and coupled to said horizontal deflecting elements, means for storing electrical energy in said storage circuit, means for the shock excitation of said storage circuit to produce therefrom a voltage pulse on said horizontal deflecting elements, a resonant circuit coupled to said grid, means controlled by said voltage pulse to produce by shock excitation of said resonant circuit an alternating voltage varying the potential of said grid, a circuit coupled to said storage circuit to derive therefrom a second voltage pulse, means controlled by said second voltage pulse for producing said transient voltage and means for impressing said transient voltage on said vertical deflecting means.

WALLACE A. DEPP.

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a q Disclaimer 2,416,290.Wallace A. Depp, Elmhurst, N. Y. OATHODE-RAY OscILLoscoPE CIRCUIT. Patent dated Feb. 25, 1947. Disclaimer filed Dec. 23, 1948, by the assignee, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Hereby enters this disclaimer to claim 3 of said patent.

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